News

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CO-ODE relaunch

Thanks to your support and funding from JISC, CO-ODE has been extended to allow further development of OWL ontology tools, tutorials and materials.
We have updated the website to make navigation easier, hoping this makes it quicker for you to find what you are looking for. Please check out the new site here [1] and let us know what you think.
We are proud to be making Protege 4.0 alpha [2] available in collaboration with Stanford University and have already updated several plugins [3] to the current release (more on the way).
We are moving towards a more collaborative, open set of tools and will be trying to make everything (including source code) more easily available.
We are moving our announcements to a more suitable form, so those signed up for the mailing list or our old news feed I hope you will find the blog [4] a better way to stay in touch (particularly as you can comment inline). This news thread will be deprecated.
Thankyou again for your support, and we hope you will visit again soon.
The CO-ODE team.
[1] http://www.co-ode.org
[2] http://www.co-ode.org/downloads/protege-x/
[3] http://www.co-ode.org/downloads/protege-x/plugins.php
[4] http://www.co-ode.org/blog/

Protege 4.0 alpha pre-release

The Manchester team have been very busy over the last 6 months+ and Protege 4.0 alpha is finally here. Currently, OWL1.0 is supported, but the framework has been designed so that other languages, such as Frames and RDF(S) can be implemented. Support for OWL1.1 is already well under way. The tool focuses on modularisation, and supporting flexible "views" of an ontology through plugins, but within a familiar Protege style.
read more and download here

OWL Debugger Beta Release

Ontologies are notoriously difficult to debug. We really need help to track down the reason for inconsistencies, which can be varied and highly distributed. The CO-ODE/HyOntUse team have finally released their Protege plugin debugger:
download it here

Bio Tutorial Materials Updated

The bio-domain tutorial on ontology engineering, reuse and patterns has now been run successfully twice in Manchester and the materials are shaping up. The most recent materials, example ontologies and excercises are available at:
bio tutorial page

Protege-OWL Usage Feedback

In order for us to better understand how the features of the Protege-OWL tool are used, we have put together a very quick survey for our users to fill in. Please set aside just a couple of minutes of your time - you will be helping us shape the future development of the Ontology Development Environment. This and future surveys are available at:
our feedback page

Let us debug your ontologies

Working out the cause of inconsistencies in an ontology can be really hard. Several groups, including ours, are working towards explaining some of the problems that can cause inconsistencies. We really need test ontologies to make sure that our tools work for real-life situations. To submit "broken" ontologies or to view submissions, please visit:
our debugging page

New Bugtracker for Protege-OWL and CO-ODE tools

To allow us to keep track of current issues and feature requests we have switched to a Mantis bugtracking system. All current issues will be migrated to this system shortly. To browse known bugs and feature requests please see our:
mantis pages

Updated Introduction to Ontologies Course Materials

Materials from our 2 day course, A Practical Introduction to Ontologies & OWL, have been updated and are now downloadable in a single (large) pdf for ease of browsing. Check them out on:
tutorial downloads

Manchester OWL Syntax Editor plugin released

A text-based alternative for editing class descriptions is now available. This editor provides a clear description, with syntax highlighting, various syntax shortcuts and autocomplete and is useful for showing simple or complex class expressions.
details & download

News RSS Feeds up and running

RSS Feeds are another way to keep up-to-date with what is happening within CO-ODE - without the hassle of a crowded email inbox.
I want to know more...

New OWL Individuals Tab released

As the paradigm for building individuals in OWL is different from that in frames-systems, we have developed a new plugin to allow greater OWL expressivity. This new tab supports creating individuals that are members of anonymous classes and creating relationships to anonymous individuals.
details & download

New OWL Validator Tab released

The OWLValdidator plugin provides a bridge to the WonderWeb OWL Valdiation Service. Results are displayed in a browser launched by Protégé.
details & download

Introduction to Ontologies Tutorial @ Manchester

Another free 2 day tutorial will be taking place in Manchester at the end of next month. We cover the basics, from motivational to theoretical foundations of ontology design and hands-on experience in the construction of ontologies as well as an overview of issues around building ontology applications.
Please note that the closing date for registration is 14th June 2005 and places are limited.
details

OWLDoc plugin available

A new plugin for Protégé-OWL has been created by CO-ODE and is available for download.
Make your ontology easier to browse by generating JavaDoc style HTML documentation automatically. You can browse all classes, individuals and properties, by namespace or type and have several configurable options such as adding abstract syntax and language support.
Please note that this plugin will only work with the OWL Plugin, build 230 or later.
details & download

OntoGrid Tutorial Complete

As part of a responsibility to European grid projects, and using new facilities at the NorthWest Institute for BioHealth Informatics (NIBHI), OntoGrid members assisted CO-ODE to host our first external tutorial event. The successful 2 day event received good feedback from the participants and brought up many issues that will be channelled into improving tools and material.

Acceptance of proposal for workshop at All Hands 2005

As part of the Knowledge Management Roadmap program (details to be published shortly), CO-ODE will be hosting a workshop at the e-Science All Hands Meeting in Nottingham in September.

Protege-OWL API updated

In an attempt to make Protégé-OWL one of the standard development platforms for manipulating OWL ontologies, the API has been revised to provide cleaner access to OWL constructs. Plugins relying on Protégé-OWL will need to be updated to utilise any new features.

For older news, please consult our 2004 archive

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